NOVEL NEXT Chapter 316 Shen Huai
Since the internal chaos of the Xiaoyao Sect, a great massacre occurred within the Mystic Sect, leading to the execution of seventy percent of the True Disciples. Many outer sect Daoist companions, tribute children, and servants were swept into the turmoil and perished. Countless sects lost their heritage.
The killing was so extensive that the grassroots were completely cut off. The Mystic Sect's original intention to model after the Immortal Palace, with the Dragon, Tiger and Deer Temple system guarding various regions, collapsed completely, ultimately failing to overthrow the lineage of the Immortal Palace.
Moreover, with the remnants of the Xiaoyao Sect constantly clamoring for revenge, demons across the world took the opportunity to emerge, and the Immortal Palace and its faction counterattacked and settled scores. In the end, the Mystic Sect had to shut its doors for self-preservation, practicing hidden cultivation. The only thing they could trust was their own chosen disciples, which evolved into today's traditional descendant temple.
For a full thousand years, the Mystic Sect remained sparsely populated and barely able to catch its breath, leading to the resurgence of the Immortal Palace, which had been defeated and forced to flee the capital. So much so that a once-in-a-millennium Daoist Divine Lord took advantage of the chaos to rise, establish new sects, and create a Divine Sect that swept across the world—though these are tangential topics.
During this period of seclusion and recuperation, the Mystic Sect naturally engaged in introspection, summarizing the problems, tracing the root causes, and calculating the sources of the causes and effects.
Heavenly Demon
Yes, at the root, the problem arose when the Ancient Mysterious Sect was deducing the Heavenly Dao, attempting to recreate the Void and rechain Outer Heaven, resulting in the descent of the Heavenly Demon, seizing bodies and being manipulated, falling to the Xiaoyao Heavenly Demon.
With this understanding, wouldn't extinguishing the Xiaoyao Dao lineage and later restricting the Primordial Spirit Method, forbidding disciples from accessing the Void, prevent the Heavenly Demon from entering the world?
The Mystic Sect indeed attempted this approach for a while but soon discovered it was unfeasible.
Let's not even mention the distant topics of the Void and Harmonization. The Trinity of Essence, Qi, Spirit is integral. From Foundation Establishment to Core Formation, it's called Qi Refining and Transforming God. How could one forego Primordial Spirit Refinement?
Whether it's Primordial Spirit Emergence, Soldier Disintegration, Reincarnation, Heart Calculation Divination, Treasure Flying Sword, all core skills of the Mystic Sect rely on Primordial Spirit support. Can one abandon martial skills out of fear of the baseless Heavenly Demon?
Moreover, if you don't cultivate, others still must. Not to mention the remnants of the Xiaoyao Sect are not yet eradicated, the Ancient Taoist School and Evil Demons have a long legacy, even the Immortal Palace has a legitimate path to deification. The Immortal Palace, however, does nothing from start to finish, whether or not possessed by the Heavenly Demon is unclear...
The key issue remains that even after exhausting the calculations of the Sect Leader Daoist Lords of the Mystic Sect, no other solution could be found.
To break through to higher realms, one must go to Outer Heaven.
Because the Tao of Taiji Heaven is already fully visible at a glance.
Don't claim that the Xiaoyao Sect is of the Demon Path, because the essence of Qi Refiners is the absorption of Qi; breathing is fundamentally a form of energy replenishment, capturing Heavenly Qi, forming my Dao.
Essentially, it's about absorbing the resources of Taiji into the body, combining with Essence Blood, Bone, and Flesh, integrating them for personal use. Initially forming a Qi group, then condensing into elixir, forming a Nascent Soul, transforming into Divinity, ultimately manifesting Heaven and Earth.
Initially, one might expel some indigestible impurities, but as the realm heightens, and Daoist practice deepens, the more True Qi resources can be refined naturally indiscriminately, more is better, Heaven and Earth for oneself.
Absorbing Spiritual Qi from fellow disciples, treating everyone as vessels, what's the big deal?
If one truly cultivates Qi Refining to the final stage, likely all of Heaven and Earth would become a vessel, the entire Taiji World would be swallowed and refined completely. How could this not provoke Heavenly Thunder?
Thus, there's actually a saying within the Mystic Sect that in essence, the reason the Hidden Immortal Sect intervened wasn't about the trivial matter of energy replenishment and vessels under the belt.
Fundamentally, the Taiji World can support a finite number of Divinity Transformations. It's even calculable based on Spiritual Qi tides. The Xiaoyao Sect, with no restrictions, cultivated too rapidly, causing a negative impact, creating too many transformed gods, exceeding the limit the world could bear. The Earth Vein Spiritual Springs of the Three Mountains and Five Mountains were exhausted, and the entire Spiritual Qi circulation of the Taiji Realm had problems.
Furthermore, these Divinity Transformation cultivators practiced too quickly, with hollow cultivation realms, unstable foundations, and lack of refined battle power, the time of their enlightenment and ascension unknown.
Thus, in the eyes of those old entities in the mountains, they became a large flock of sheep ready for slaughter. Using any excuse, they were all harvested.
After this event, the Mystic Sect internally reached a consensus to prevent too many at the Divinity Transformation Realm, endlessly absorbing until the system crashed.
To manage the speed of cultivators at each realm, emphasizing the understanding of the Heavenly Dao. The key is to stop when appropriate; if one truly cannot attain enlightenment, it's better not to stubbornly persist. When the calamity strikes, transition swiftly to reincarnation, otherwise, the Heavenly Thunder will not grant you dignity, but others will help you save face.
Ahem, I've digressed.
In short, the fundamental difference between the Mystic Sect and the Immortal Palace lies in not refusing to acknowledge problems, but in directly confronting challenges, overcoming every calamity on the path of Dao.
Controlling the number of Divinity Transformation is a stopgap measure, not addressing the root cause. The source lies in flying across to Outer Heaven, the only real way to transcend the Taiji Realm and its cycle of transformation and reincarnation of Divinity.
Thus, to solve the issue of the Void, continuing Refining Void is necessary; even while aware of the risk of Heavenly Demon's descent, one must still confront the abyss, forcibly explore the void, possibly finding the root problem and addressing it.
Finally, the nine major sects convened at Cloud Platform, agreed on a project, establishing a collaborative research topic.
Fostering the Heavenly Demon
Given the unclear situation of Outer Heaven, the risk of directly sending the Primordial Spirit to explore the void is too great, often resulting in no return, or returning insane. Even with many Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation cultivators, the Mystic Sect couldn't afford such consumption, nor would anyone willingly make such fearless sacrifices.